“Once the company was stable under proper management, the dosage would have stopped.”

“And my hearing?”

“You could have adapted.”

Graham felt the words like a physical blow. His grandmother had spent her life fighting people who believed deafness made her less intelligent, less capable, less human.

Vanessa had tried to weaponize the same prejudice against him.

“You chose hearing loss because you believed the board would confuse disability with incompetence.”